It's hard to tell, due to the depth of focus, but to me it looks like
your standard 12V burglar alarm battery (lead-acid).
The article blows my mind. I can totally see the savings you'd get in a
large datacenter by having distributed battery-backup as opposed to a
huge central UPS that you need to purchase excess capacity for growth.
Jim
Stan Brinkerhoff wrote:
Is that a drycell battery up front?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
Stan
-----Original Message-----
From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of jonathan d p ferguson
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:20 PM
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Subject: Google's Servers + Hackerspaces + VT ISP = ???
hi.
OK. This is pretty cool, actually. Google has been building their own
servers for a long time now, apparently, but they've been keeping the
lid on it. It reminds me of Sun's Modular Datacenter.
Sun: http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/
Background on Google's hardware strategy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform
The link to CNET on Google's announcement:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
As we were talking about the idea of cost and benefit, what kind of
margins could one pull with this kind of system?
have a day.yad
jdpf
